Reblogged:Trump Gets Specific in Gettysburg

[Michael J. Hurd Ph.D.]

You can read Donald Trump’s specific proposals for his first 100 days in office here.

Most of them are good, and none of them are awful.

Examples:

Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

Good intention. It won’t happen. If the presidential election is rigged by decades of political pull making it impossible for a non-Establishment politician to win, then Congressional elections are twice as bad. But the principle is right. Better than limiting terms would be limiting the power of government to tax and redistribute. But given the addiction that is government, this may be our last option.

Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health)

Not a bad idea. May be too little, too late; but it’s a start in the right direction.

Require for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated.

Great intention. But it’s not just the number of regulations we have that are a problem. It’s the nature of the regulations themselves. Some are more damaging than others. But a president, especially a strong one, can attempt to take control of the executive branch of government this way, and Trump should, if he wins.

Announce intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205.  Announce withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Free trade is not the problem. The lack of capitalism – i.e., the presence of regulations, high taxes – is the problem. To Trump’s credit, he attempts to address these problems. And certainly these agreements, as negotiated by people like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, have nothing whatsoever to do with the cause of America, liberty or free enterprise. We don’t need permission to trade with people of other nations, especially on terms set by power-lusting socialists.

Lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward.

Yes. We should not need government’s permission to engage in these ventures. Lift as many controls on the development of energy as quickly as possible. Obama and Hillary have no right to slow down the growth of industry because it offends their urban spiritual kinship with environmentalism.

Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.

Infrastructure spending does not grow the economy. Better to return the money to the private sector, via tax and other spending cuts. But if Trump insists on government keeping the money, then better to spend it on real projects than the insane nonsense spouted by the U.N. Getting the U.S. out of the U.N. would be an even better step. But this is a positive direction in the meantime.

Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama.

Amen. It’s not just that everything Obama has done is wrong. It’s that he’s doing it illegally. The only way to reverse course is to reverse everything Obama has done, since he did much of it without legislative authorization. Every day in office, Obama has spat on our Constitution. Deleting Obama’s record and legacy would be accomplishment enough for a President.

Work with Congress on a Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.

Tax reductions don’t need to be aimed at the middle class. They should be aimed at everyone equally. The wealthiest are the ones with the money to spend and invest. The question is whether that money should be in the hands of those who earned it, or those who take it – i.e., the politicians. Nevertheless, at least Trump proposes cutting taxes. Hillary Clinton will only raise them for everyone, and she makes little effort to hide it any longer. Trump should also cut subsidies to any and all private companies who get them. Privatize economic activity.

The biggest thing Trump left out? Cutting spending. Particularly controlling entitlements. Trump’s major failing as a candidate is that he doesn’t confront spending, most especially Social Security and Medicare. Nobody does. But at least his proposals don’t deliberately make things worse and give the government more and more power in the process. Who knows? Given his unpredictability, Trump might take on this issue once he’s in the reality of the Oval Office, should he get there.

Let’s be real. Trump cannot save us, and nobody else can, either. Only a free market, combined with a resurgence of individual liberties and robust economic freedom, can save us.

Trump is an unknown. Hillary Clinton is a certain disaster. Under her rule, we’re going down for sure, and we’ll do it with fewer individual rights and Constitutional liberties than ever before.

Is that what you #NeverTrumpers really want?

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